A01540:486
A just defence of certain passages in a former treatise concerning the nature and…A iust defence of certaine passages in a former treatise concerning the nature and…
A just defence of certain passages in a former treatise concerning the nature and use of lots, against such exceptions and oppositions as have been made thereunto to Mr. I.B. Wherein the insufficiency of his answers given to the arguments brought in defence of a lusorious lot is manifested; the imbecility of his arguments produced against the same further discovered; and the point it self in controversy more fully cleared; by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and author of the former treatise.A iust defence of certaine passages in a former treatise concerning the nature and vse of lots, against such exceptions and oppositions as have beene made thereunto to Mr. I.B. Wherein the insufficiencie of his answers giuen to the arguments brought in defence of a lusorious lot is manifested; the imbecillitie of his arguments produced against the same further discouered; and the point it selfe in controuersie more fully cleared; by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and author of the former treatise.
London: printed by John Haviland for Robert Bird, 1623London: printed by Iohn Haviland for Robert Bird, 1623
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
T. G. This should have come before. Yet better at last, we say, than never. But awhat new matter hath Mr. B. here brought? Doth he any more than ⟨p. 215⟩babuse his Reader by singing over and over his wonted song, that in every lawful Lot (it must be in every one lawful or unlawful, if it be of the nature and essence of a Lot) there is an immediate providence: and if so, then that such and such things follow; that which no man doubteth of or denieth. I pass by, that he saith, I grant that every extraordinary Lot is Gods Name, and Gods Name abused in it, when it is contemned; whereas I hold many extraordinary Lots, as all Divinatory ones used now adays, to be rather the Devils Name; and Gods Name most honoured, when they are most, not contemned only, but detested too.
T. G. This should haue come before. Yet better at last, we say, than neuer. But awhat new matter hath Mr. B. here brought? Doth hee any more than ⟨p. 215⟩babuse his Reader by singing ouer and ouer his wonted song, that in euery lawfull Lot (it must be in euery one lawfull or vnlawfull, if it be of the nature and essence of a Lot) there is an immediate prouidence: and if so, then that such and such things follow; that which no man doubteth of or denieth. I passe by, that he saith, I grant that euery extraordinary Lot is Gods Name, and Gods Name abused in it, when it is contemned; whereas I hold many extraordinary Lots, as all Diuinatorie ones vsed now adaies, to be rather the Deuils Name; and Gods Name most honoured, when they are most, not contemned only, but detested too.
- aMirabar, inquit ille, si quid afferres novi. Ter. Phorm. 3. 2.
- bAt enim taedet jam eadem audire millies: dum eandē semper cantilenam canis. Ibid.